Papers

Machine Learning

Machine learning is a research field that aims to obtain general knowledge from data, and is being applied to many other fields, including natural language processing, information retrieval, speech processing and image processing. Machine learning is mainly used in understanding the structure of data itself, and in predictions regarding unknown cases using past data.

Yahoo! JAPAN is not only developing new machine learning methods, but it is also using these methods to extract valuable information from the large volumes of diverse data generated by its large number of users, and improve actual advertising, recommendation and other services.